Balearic Catalan
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Balearic (Catalan: balear)[lower-alpha 1] is the collective name for the dialects of Catalan spoken in the Balearic Islands: mallorquí in Mallorca, eivissenc in Ibiza and menorquí in Menorca.
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Balearic | |
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Majorcan, Minorcan, Ibizan | |
mallorquí, menorquí, eivissenc | |
Native to | Spain |
Region | Balearic Islands |
Speakers of any Catalan dialect in the islands | 746,792 (2001)[1] |
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Catalan alphabet | |
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ISO 639-3 | – |
IETF | ca-u-sd-esib |
The Catalan- speaking regions with the Balearic islands in red (■) | |
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At the 2011 census, 861,232 respondents in the Balearic Islands claimed to be able to understand either Balearic or mainland Catalan, compared to 111,912 respondents who could not; proportions were similar on each of the islands.[1]